This video of a migrant sit-in in a Barcelona church is part of a long-term project about the struggles of legal and illegal migrants. This segment describes the sit-in on a night in June 2004 as experienced inside the Iglesia del Pí, documenting the assemblies held by the migrants under pressure of the government, major trade unions and the police, followed by the declarations made through the press.
UntitledThe American Egypt recovers the short life of America's first socialist government: the Mexican revolution in the Yucatan Peninsula, between 1915 and 1924. In the study of Mexican history, Yucatan should be considered as a case apart; the region's attempts to secede in the 19th century suggest that Yucatan, like Texas and California, was only nominally part of the Mexican United States.
UntitledDifferent people talk about their experiences and ideas of sorrow.
Untitled“If people really knew the process through which money is created, the system would not hold more than 24 hours” - Henry Ford. Faced with a lack of money, the people have begun to reinvent it, initiating credit and barter systems and inventing local parallel economies. An essential and incisive look into the hidden side of money.
"In Devil in the Flesh, I look at myself in the mirror, but through the desolate hole of a mask, the circle is broken by the sharp biting angle of a telephone that keeps ringing. I take up the spoon again. There is no form of escape from everyday boredom. Every grammatical punctuation constitutes a search for a break in reality or an intensified state." 6th Independent Vídeo & Interactive Phenomena Show
Untitled"How much more can we take? How much pain will we have to suffer before we wake up?"
UntitledEntrem en el món d'una porteria amb la Teresina i els veïns de la finca on ha viscut des de 1931. Som testimonis de les anades i vingudes dels veïns, de les pujades i baixades de gent nova i de gent gran, mentre Teresina ens explica històries de nou dècades de vida que ens remeten constantment al present. Respectada i molt estimada pels que l'envolten, les seves anècdotes i les declaracions dels veïns ens fan reflexionar sobre l'educació, la família i la vida canviant. Dut a terme en l'edifici que ha estat la seva llar des de petita, El cor de l'escala és una pellícula tendra que homenatja la fermesa de caràcter d'una dona al crepuscle de la seva vida, on l'activitat diària de l'escala està marcada per les parets, finestres i enreixats d'aquest espai comunal.